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4/5/2024
Amtrak recently named Wohlsen Construction Co. as the contractor for the $53 million Unified Operations Center (UOC) facility project in Wilmington, Delaware. The award follows a competitive procurement that began in August 2023.
"One of our primary goals for the Renaissance Centre building is to create a new Amtrak Unified Operations Center to serve our nationwide rail network, which will drive enhanced reliability, efficiency, safety and customer service," Gery Williams, Amtrak's executive vice president of service delivery and operations.
Wohlsen will work with Amtrak to build out and construct the workspaces, conference rooms, the operations center, the Tier-3 data center, video wall systems, mechanical and electrical system upgrades and building-wide improvements at the Renaissance Centre, Amtrak officials said in a press release.
The project calls for constructing an integrated 24/7 operations center to monitor and manage national operations and dispatch the Mid-Atlantic division, which encompasses all train movements in the Washington-Philadelphia-Harrisburg corridor.
Additionally, the UOC will house the national operations control center, which manages the fleet and onboard crew assignments and coordinates responses to service disruptions. A new Tier-3 data center will also be created at the facility to support operations. Amtrak also plans to consolidate other functions into the building, including relocations of the Amtrak Police Department’s National Communications Center. Digital technology personnel from temporary office space at the Wilmington Station will be moved into the new facility.
The new Amtrak UOC is expected to be completed in 2027.